A Numerical Study of a Dielectric Disk Antenna Above Grounded Dielectric Substrate

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 41, Issue 6, 1993, Pages 813-821

  Kishk, Ahmed A ^a   Zunoubi, M R ^a   Kajfez, Darko ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTENNA GROUNDS; ANTENNA RADIATION; CIRCUIT RESONANCE; DIELECTRIC MATERIALS; DIRECTIONAL PATTERNS (ANTENNA); INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PERMITTIVITY; Q FACTOR MEASUREMENT; SUBSTRATES;

DIELECTRIC DISK ANTENNA; GROUNDED DIELECTRIC SUBSTRATE;

MICROSTRIP ANTENNAS;

EID: 0027614753     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: 15582221     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/8.250458     Document Type: Article

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